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Empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study
Empathy is a concept native to the field of medicine. However, over the course of medical school, empathy levels are expected to decline. The aim of this study was to assess the empathy levels among medical students in relation to their year of study and specialties of choice in the future. MATERIAL...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10406022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000001042 |
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author | Naseem, Masooma Tahir, Burhanuddin Salman, Afia Qadir, Sara Farhan, Rida Ali, Sajjad Naseem, Zehra Ahmed, Warda Anan, Mahfuza |
author_facet | Naseem, Masooma Tahir, Burhanuddin Salman, Afia Qadir, Sara Farhan, Rida Ali, Sajjad Naseem, Zehra Ahmed, Warda Anan, Mahfuza |
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description | Empathy is a concept native to the field of medicine. However, over the course of medical school, empathy levels are expected to decline. The aim of this study was to assess the empathy levels among medical students in relation to their year of study and specialties of choice in the future. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess empathy levels among students from medical colleges in Karachi, Pakistan, using an online survey. The total duration of the study was 2 months. The authors analyzed the data using SPSS version 20. RESULTS: A total of 463 undergraduate medical students participated in this survey. The overall mean empathy score was 101.9±16.3 with 104.6±14.1 for females, which was significantly higher than the male participants. The highest empathy levels were demonstrated in fourth-year medical students with a mean empathy score of 104.1±16.3, whereas, the lowest empathy levels were found in second-year medical students with a mean empathy score of 99.8±9.4. Study participants considering emergency medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, and oncology as their specialty of choice demonstrated the highest empathy levels followed by pediatrics and internal medicine. CONCLUSION: On average, there was a female preponderance in empathy levels among undergraduate medical students. Empathy levels among fourth-year students involved in clinical practice were greater as compared to students in their initial years of study. Further investigations are required to validate the findings of this study. |
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spelling | pubmed-104060222023-08-08 Empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study Naseem, Masooma Tahir, Burhanuddin Salman, Afia Qadir, Sara Farhan, Rida Ali, Sajjad Naseem, Zehra Ahmed, Warda Anan, Mahfuza Ann Med Surg (Lond) Original Research Empathy is a concept native to the field of medicine. However, over the course of medical school, empathy levels are expected to decline. The aim of this study was to assess the empathy levels among medical students in relation to their year of study and specialties of choice in the future. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess empathy levels among students from medical colleges in Karachi, Pakistan, using an online survey. The total duration of the study was 2 months. The authors analyzed the data using SPSS version 20. RESULTS: A total of 463 undergraduate medical students participated in this survey. The overall mean empathy score was 101.9±16.3 with 104.6±14.1 for females, which was significantly higher than the male participants. The highest empathy levels were demonstrated in fourth-year medical students with a mean empathy score of 104.1±16.3, whereas, the lowest empathy levels were found in second-year medical students with a mean empathy score of 99.8±9.4. Study participants considering emergency medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, and oncology as their specialty of choice demonstrated the highest empathy levels followed by pediatrics and internal medicine. CONCLUSION: On average, there was a female preponderance in empathy levels among undergraduate medical students. Empathy levels among fourth-year students involved in clinical practice were greater as compared to students in their initial years of study. Further investigations are required to validate the findings of this study. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10406022/ /pubmed/37554918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000001042 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | Original Research Naseem, Masooma Tahir, Burhanuddin Salman, Afia Qadir, Sara Farhan, Rida Ali, Sajjad Naseem, Zehra Ahmed, Warda Anan, Mahfuza Empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title | Empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | empathy levels among undergraduate medical students in karachi, pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10406022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000001042 |
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